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L. C. LAWTON.

WATER PROOF CIRCULAR.

No. 305,011. Patented Sept. 9,1884.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFF QE.

LYNDON C. LA\VTON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE OHICAG RUBBER CLOTHING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WATER-PROOF CIRCULAR.

E?:ECIFICA.TION forming pait of Letters PatentNo. 305,011, dated September 9, 1884.

Application filed February 18, 1884. (No model.)

. r lars; and the object of my improvement is to provide for protecting the arms of the person wearing such a garment when outside or partly outside of the main garment, without materially increasing its cost or interfering with putting it on and removing it readily, which I accomplish as illustrated in the drawings.

In the drawings, A represents a water-proof circular provided with buttons a and buttonholes at the front, as usual. 1), Fig.1, is one of the armholes the other being concealed by the arm-protector. B B are arm-protcctors one on each side of the garmentwhich extend back to the side seam, c, of the circular, and are there sewed into such side seam of the circular, as indicated at c, Fig. 3, and at the top are stitched to the neckband d of the garinent, leaving the front and lower end of each protector free. One of these'arnrprotectors, B, is provided with buttons 73, and the other 3 5 with button-holes. In Fig. 1, one of the armpr'otectors is thrown back for the purpose of showing the armhole b. The parts B B can be buttoned together in stormy weather, and

are made sufliciently full to allow this to be done, and at the same time permit the free 0 use of the arms between the main garment A and the arm-protectors, and to allow the party wearing the garment to carry packages of moderate size in the arms or hands between the main garment and the arm-protectors. If the arm-protectors be only partially buttoned together, or even if they be left wholly unbuttoned, they will still afford protection for the arms when outside of the main garment and permit the use of the hands. 0

In Fig. 3 I have shown a hood. attached to the circular in the usual manner.

I am aware that cloaks have been provided with capes, and also with flowing sleeves, and I do not claim either of these constructions. I provide a plain circular having large armholes with protectors for the arms, which are attached to the garment at their upper ends and rear edges, which cost but little, which furnish complete protection to the arms of the 6 wearer, and the front edges of which are adapted to be buttoned or hooked together when desired.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In awater- 'iroof circular, a circular, A, provided with armholes b, in combination with arm-protectors B B, secured at their upper ends and rear edges to the circular A at the side seams, and which can be buttoned or otherwise secured together at their front edges, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

LYNDON G. LAIVTON. \Vitnesses:

E. A. WEsT, ALBERT H. Aunts. 

